1) The main characters are: The Gaines : Cecil, his
wife Gloria , their two sons Louis and Charlie, and Earl Gaines (Cecil’s brother). Terrence Howard
and his wife Gina (friend and neighbours of Cecil’s family).
2) The plantation’s owner raped Cecil’s mother and
shot and killed his father.
3)The rules which were taught by The old lady to Cecil
were : to be quiet when he’s serving, no breath’s hearing, home should feel empty when he’s
in.
4) The hotel’s name where he started to work was the
Washington D.C Hotel.
5) At Eisenhower’s time it was still segregation black
people had their own schools and white too. But a new law declared public school segregation unconstitutional. Nine students were choosen and arrived at the high school but the Governor sent National guard to keep them entering the school. Then, Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock (Arkansas) to execute the federal
6) The six presidents shown in the film are Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy,
Lyndon Johnson,
Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter.
7) The author of this famous quotation at the
beginning of the film is Dr Martin Luther King.
8) Fisk University is situated in Nashville, Tennessee.
Cecil shall have preferred Howard University in Washington, D.C
because it was known as the
"Harvard for blacks.
9) The group which was leading the sit in movment was
Cecil’s elder son’s group : Louis
10) Dr Martin
Luther King inspired their ideologies.
11) The bus of the “Freedom riders” was attacked by
the KKK. Celcil’s elder son was in with volunteers black and white through
Alabama.
12) After her husband’s assassination Jacky Kennedy
offered to Cecil one of her husband’s tie
13) The main leader of the Civil Rights movement is
Martin Luther King
14) Slavery was abolished by Lincoln in 1883.
15) Cecil’s eldest son Louis joined The Black Panthers
and the second one Charlie join the army and died in the Vietnam war.
16) The president who invited the Gaines’s at the
White House was the Reagan’s.
17) Louis
became a politician,( a congressman).
18) At the end of the
film Cecil and his son Louis gather in front of the Embassy of South of Africa protesting
the incarceration
of Nelson Mandela.
19) The President Barack
Obama was elected the 4th of November,2008.
20) His motto was : “ Yes, we can!”
21)The government had to
face in the 70’s and 80s oil’s crisis,
the anti war movement, Economic recession, Women’s rights, the Watergate
scandal, Inflation.
22) The presidents from
Reagan to Obama are : George W. Bush,
Bill Clinton, George W. Bush (junior),
